неделя, 28 октомври 2012 г.

Tim Hecker @ Control Club, Bucharest 13.10.12

In my tour diary for the time I spent in Bucharest I briefly mentioned the fact a bit more than two weeks ago I was able to witness Tim Hecker live. In order to keep this memory forever and share it with those who feel intrigued, I wrote a short report for Rawk'n'Roll available HERE. It's in Bulgarian tho, so for those of you who can't handle my native language here's a quick translation of what Hecker did to me/us in Bucharest. The lack of photos is due to the fact he plays in complete darkness which is always a bitch for photographers. However if you are into the visual part of things I recommend you checking the Environments live video below the text. I find it extremely valuable since I travelled over 13 hours from Belgrade to Bucharest for the show and I couldn't catch their set. Thankfully I watched them live the next day. So here we go.

Tim Hecker always plays in total
darkness and this night was not different. However, few lights managed to survive and they were pretty enough to show there's a human
being in front of you. And he was the person creating this very same powerful
sound environment that we happened to be in. When you listen to ambient you have two
options – to listen to it quietly or so loud that the sound deafens the rest of
your senses. That night the sound was powerful and engulfing, the low frequencies were mostly monolithic and massive but sometimes they reached quite chaotic states. In all
of their metamorphoses they were able to create a perfect foundation for the endless
sounds that Hecker was layering over them. Our ribs were vibrating
after each tiny change in the sound. The music was too rich and our
brains often lost track of either our perceptions were real, associative or
physical. In the crashing sound waves there were hundreds of threads that you could find and follow. This made me want to experience the show again even before it was over. I often closed my eyes because they were irrelevant. Everything that I had to witness reached me through my ears or hands. Our bodies felt like an amplifier and touch gave us a double dose of vibrations. A double dose of music via physical means.

On October 13th in 'Control' Tim Hecker
gave us a new, smaller but more complex world. Over a week after,
the sound is gone but had generated in us a pile of thoughts, ideas,
landscapes, contact. We are forever inside his music. All we need is
to close our eyes and it's unfloding in an explosion of
thoughts, feelings and eternal neuronal connections.